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(if you haven't used Addventure before, or are new to the BE Adventure, please start at the top and read all the topics)
- What is the Unending BE Addventure?
- New Rules: A Few Rules & Guidelines
- Help With Addventure in General
- Enter the Unending BE Addventure
- Unending BE Addventure Stats & Utilities
What Is the Unending BE Adventure?
This is a sort of combination of the Continuous Stories and an Interactive Story. Anybody can add segments to the story, but each time you do, you have to provide links to one or more future story segments. The stories immediately begin branching off in all sorts of strange directions, and all of them are available to be read or extended any time, by anyone.Unlike a "normal" Continuous Story, an Addventure doesn't get "stuck." If one particular storyline seems to have gotten bogged down, just back up and take another branch. Within days, there will be hundreds of open branches to extend whenever you like. All types of stories can exist in one place, since there are literally hundreds of mini-stories going on simultaneously in an Addventure.
This BE Addventure was inspired by the original Addventure , most especially Addventure Game 3 . The BE Addventure is using the Addventure code (provided under GNU Copyleft), so everybody thank the fine folks at Addventure for their time and energy that has gone into the code!
You may also want to stop by some episodes of Addventure's Game 3 which are particularly relevant to BE:
- An Odd Bra (Scott picks out a Nurse's costume with an Odd Bra)
- Wer? What? (Scott can become a were-stripper if he wants)
- The Ultimate Remote Control Guess what some of the buttons do?
- Addventure: A New Beginning
Now, for our Unending BE Addventure , there are a few rules and a few guidelines to consider:
Rules
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Every story segment (called an "episode") must contain between one and
six links to future episodes. Although you decide the "link text" for those
episodes (the text which a reader would click to go to that episode), you
don't have to enter the future episodes themselves. Indeed, usually future
episodes are written by other people. But you cannot have an episode which
has no links, and you cannot have an episode with more than 6 links. The
program will prevent them.
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The story never ends. This is obvious, given rule 1, but just to be
explicit about it: the story never ends. If you feel like the story should
wrap up in a particular spot, you can have the main character go to sleep
and wake up back at Episode 2, which is the main root of the whole
story. (This introduction you're reading now is Episode 1). The start was
specifically written to have a character wake up, so you can link back there
at any time.
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No sabotage
. It depresses me that I have to say this, but apparently
I have to. It's OK to have a branch or two link back to the root,
but you will not be permitted to "kill" someone's story branch by
linking
all
of its children back to the story root. I don't care
if you're the "original author" or just a bully. You will not be
permitted to sabotage this BE Addventure. You don't like that? Don't
write here. Sabotage will be defined and dealt with at the moderator's
discretion.
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No flame wars
. Avoid using the Addventure to "write" to other
authors. That's what the
Plume Forum
is for.
Especially no flaming of previous authors. Don't like what they wrote?
Then either don't follow its links, or write a branch from it that
goes in a direction you want to go. Do NOT write text in your episode
about how dumb a previous author was, or how they ignored part of a story,
or what-have-you. This Addventure is open to the public. That means
anyone can add to it, even people who don't follow continuity or
who incorporate elements you don't like. Deal with it. Flame episodes
may be removed at the moderator's discretion.
- If you change your mind and decide not to write an episode after you've already begun writing it , DO NOT just click the Back button on your browser to go back - use the "Cancel" links provided on every "data entry" page instead. Using "Cancel" cleans up the files properly - just going "Back", or quitting from your browser, leaves your episode half-finished and it will be a few hours before it will be cleaned up and someone else can write that episode.
Guidelines
- When you're writing an episode, you're writing in HTML. If you put in
carriage returns to break up paragraphs, they will NOT be preserved and put
into the episode. You instead need to put in the HTML code for a paragraph
break, which is <p> (a "p" inside angle brackets). You may decide to
use an HTML editor to write your episode, and then copy it into the browser
- this will work fine, but be sure to only copy the part inside the "body"
of your HTML document when you copy it in.
- Likewise, you can use any other HTML codes you like when writing an
episode. To make words bold, put them between <b> and
</b> tags. To make them italic, put them between <i> and
</i> tags. Just about any HTML is allowed in episodes.
- When making up choices for future links, remember you can only have
between 1 and 6 choices. Try to make the choices be something noticeably
different. If you write an episode that says "Jim picks out a shirt to
wear" and the choices are "a red shirt", "a blue shirt", "a green shirt",
and so on, most people find that almost impossible to follow up, and it
tends to kill the entire future of your episode. This is probably because
writers want to make use of the story so far and make the story on their
choice be different than other choices. But how would choosing a different
color shirt make their future different? If you must have a "choose a
shirt" episode, make the choices more radically different, like "a shirt
with a magic pentagram on it", "a shirt with a picture of Marilyn Monroe,
that seems to sparkle and glow", and so forth.
- When in doubt, make fewer links. The fewer choices, the better - it
helps keep the story together. Vitamin C suggests using only 2 choices in
most situations - I prefer a general rule of 3 choices, but you get the
picture... KISS!
- It's usually nice to add a "something else" link as a choice. If you
make an episode where you end with the phone ringing, and you want to
have the reader decide who's on the phone, don't just put "Sharon" or
"Sally" -- also add a third option like "Someone else". This lets
writers with a lot of creativity add fun and interesting twists you didn't
expect into the story.
- When you're writing a new episode, you will be given the option of
"creating all new episodes", or "allowing links to past episodes". Allowing
links means that you may want to have some of the choices leading out of
your episode to go back to previously-written episodes. If you don't allow
links, then all the choices you specify will be brand-new, "blank" episodes,
waiting for an author to come and fill them in.
- When writing an episode, you will also be allowed to specify whether
"linking is enabled". Checking this box would allow future episode writers
to link back to your episode. If you leave it unchecked, then nobody will
be able to link back to your episode with one of their choices.
- The same general sorts of cautions exist as in the Continuous Stories.
Please don't be rude to previous authors - if you don't like something
they're writing, go to another branch of the tree that you do like. Do not
add on bits saying "that was stupid." Rude additions will be removed
at the moderator's discretion.
- Have fun!
That's it, folks! Have fun, and enjoy this Unending BE Addventure! To start reading at the root of the tree,